Richard Calvocoressi

Richard Calvocoressi CBE
Born	Richard Edward Ion Calvocoressi (1951-05-05) 5 May 1951 (age 74) Westerham, Kent, England
Nationality	British
Education	Eton College
Alma mater	Magdalen College, Oxford Courtauld Institute of Art
Occupation	Museum curator
Years active	1979–present
Parents	Ion Calvocoressi (father) Katherine Kennedy (mother)

Richard Edward Ion Calvocoressi CBE (b. 5 May 1951) is a British museum and gallery curator and art historian.

Career

Calvocoressi was born in Westerham, Kent, ^[1] one of three sons of Major Ion Calvocoressi, MBE, MC (1919-2007) and Katherine, née Kennedy (b. 1927). He was educated at Eton College, ^[2] Brooke House, Market Harborough, and graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He served as an assistant keeper of modern art at the Tate Gallery from 1979 until 1987, ^[1] and was director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh from 1987 until 2007. He then served as director of the Henry Moore Foundation, and in 2015 became a senior curator at the Gagosian Gallery. ^{[3] [4]}

Calvocoressi was appointed to the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art on 13 November 2012, serving until 12 November 2016. ^[5] He was subsequently reappointed for another four-year term.

Personal life

He married Francesca Temple Roberts in 1976. They have three children. ^[2]

He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2008 Birthday Honours for "services to the Arts, particularly in Scotland". ^[6]

Selected publications

• Marine Painting. Oxford: Phaidon. 1978. ISBN   978-0-71481-774-3.
• Magritte. Oxford: Phaidon. 1979. ISBN   978-0-71481-965-5.
• A. R. Penck: Brown's Hotel and other works. London: Tate Gallery. 1984.
• Lucian Freud: Early Works. Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. 1997. ISBN   978-0-90359-866-8.
• Lee Miller: Portraits from a Life. London: Thames & Hudson. 2002. ISBN   978-0-50028-522-0.
• Lucian Freud on Paper. London: Jonathan Cape 2008.
• Francis Bacon: Late Paintings. New York: Rizzoli International. 2016. ISBN   978-0-84784-775-4.
• Georg Baselitz. London: Thames & Hudson. 2021

References

1. Long, Christopher A. (2 February 2012). "Family Group Sheet: Richard Edward Ion Calvocoressi". Ralli family of Chios (Pitsis branch). Retrieved 29 September 2017.
2. Mosley, Charles, ed. (1999). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage (106th ed.). Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. Retrieved 29 September 2017– via thepeerage.com.
3. "Calvocoressi, Richard". Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
4. "Richard Calvocoressi". The Art Business Conference. 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
5. "Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Object of Cultural Interest appointments" (PDF). Department for Culture, Media and Sport . November 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
6. "No. 58729". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2008. p. 4.

External links

• Richard Calvocoressi at IMDb
• "Richard Edward Ion Calvocoressi by Lucy Anne Dickens (June 2001)". National Portrait Gallery . Retrieved 29 September 2017.